photographic print

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Object Type
Museum number: Af,A1.22
Description: Landscape. Kopje (small hill with lumps of rock on ground) near Kimberley. Fifteen European [?] adults on visit to site with rock-engravings. Medium: Gelatin silver print.
Production date: 1929 (28th July)
Production place: Made in: Pniel Kopje, archaeological site; Made in: Kimberley (Northern Cape) (near)
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 7.55 centimetres; Width: 9.96 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Cataloguer's comments: Size of album, 218 photographs. Main themes: visits to archaeological sites, including Stone Age caves and rock art, to indigenous settlements in Northern Transvaal and Zimbabwe, to Johanesburg, Cape Town and Victoria Falls. Circumstances: [BRA-] PIC DOC 01, and as attached in album. Braunholtz went to South Africa in 1929 for a conference of the British Association for the Advancement fo Science (B J Mack 24/11/1994).
Location: Not on display
Condition: Good condition.
Subjects: rock art; archaeologist
Associated names: Associated with: Gouin (?); Associated with: Goodwin; Associated with: Hermann Justus Braunholtz; Associated with: Prof Browne (?); Associated with: Miss Margaret Murray; Associated with: Prof Fleme; Associated with: J G Van Alphen; Associated with: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon
Acquisition name
Acquisition notes: Copyright: British Museum.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Af,A1.22

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